Selections of Romantic-era plays
include The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Drama, ed. Jeffrey
Cox and Michael Gamer (2003) and the website British
Women Playwrights around 1800. A Broadview Anthology of British Women Playwrights is forthcoming.

Boris Ford (ed.), The Cambridge
Guide to the Arts in Britain: Romantics to Early Victorians (1989; reissued
in paperback under the title The Romantic Age in Britain, 1992),
a brief overview of the fine and applied arts (including painting, architecture,
music, and interior design) in the period

Iain McCalman (gen. ed.), An
Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British Culture 17761832
(1999), a very thorough and useful guide to persons, events, and contexts
of the period, consisting of 42 essays on major topics and a longer section
of alphabetically arranged encyclopedia entries

Stuart Curran (ed.), The Cambridge
Companion to British Romanticism (1992), a collection of essays

Frank Jordan (ed.), The English
Romantic Poets (1985), an annotated bibliography of scholarship (up to
1982) on British Romanticism generally and on Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge,
Byron Shelley, and Keats in particular

Michael O'Neill (ed.), Literature
of the Romantic Period (1998), an annotated bibliography, supplementing
Jordan's on the major poets but also covering novelists, essayists, women
poets, the Gothic, etc.

The four novels, Evelina,
Cecilia, Camilla, and The Wanderer are all available as
Oxford World's Classics paperbacks. Evelina is also available in Penguin
(1994), Norton Critical (1997), and Broadview (2000) paperback editions.

BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM:

Margaret Anne Doody, Frances
Burney: The Life in the Works (1988), a highly regarded biographical and
critical study

A Short Residence in Sweden,
Norway, and Denmark (Penguin, 1987), includes Godwin's Memoir

BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM:

William Godwin,
Memoirs of the Author of the "Vindication of the Rights of Woman"
(1798), a startlingly unvarnished account and the basis of subsequent biographies,
available in a Woodstock facsimile (1993) and a Broadview paperback (2001)

Eleanor Flexner, Mary Wollstonecraft:
A Biography (1972)

William St. Clair, The Godwins
and the Shelleys (1989)

Claire Tomalin, The Life and
Death of Mary Wollstonecraft (1974; revised 1992)

Janet Todd, Mary Wollstonecraft:
A Revolutionary Life (2000), the most recent biography

Sandy McMillen Conger, Mary
Wollstonecraft and the Language of Sensibility (1994), on Wollstonecraft's
fiction and its literary context

Moira Ferguson and Janet Todd,
Mary Wollstonecraft (1984)

Claudia Johnson (ed.), The
Cambridge Companion to Mary Wollstonecraft (2002), a collection of essays
on various aspects of Wollstonecraft's work

Jennifer Lorch, Mary Wollstonecraft:
The Making of a Radical Feminist (1990)

Mary Poovey, The Proper Lady
and the Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft,
Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen (1984)

Virginia Shapiro, Vindication
of Political Virtue: The Political Theory of Mary Wollstonecraft (1992)

There are Oxford World's
Classics paperback editions of The Italian, The Mysteries of Udolpho,
The Romance of the Forest, and A Sicilian Romance; there are Arno
Press facsimile editions of these novels and of The Castles of Athlin
and Gaston de Blondeville.

BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM:

Aline Grant, Ann Radcliffe:
A Biography (1951)

Rictor Norton, Mistress of
Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe (1999), the standard biography

The Letters of William and
Dorothy Wordsworth (8 vols., 196793), abridged in separate
paperback editions as The Letters of William Wordsworth (1990)
and The Letters of Dorothy Wordsworth (1991)

The 1799, 1805, and 1850 versions
of The Prelude are printed together in a good Norton
Critical Edition (1979). A Norton edition of the Poetry and Prose (including
the 1805 version of The Prelude) is in preparation.

BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM:

Stephen Gill, William Wordsworth:
A Life (1989), the standard biography

Duncan Wu, Wordsworth: An Inner
Life (2002), a biography centered on the unfinished Recluse project

The Edinburgh Edition of the
Waverley Novels (25 vols. to date, 1993; titles published thus
far
include The Abbot, The Antiquary, The Bride of Lammermoor,
Castle Dangerous, Guy
Mannering,
The Heart of Mid-Lothian,
Ivanhoe, Kenilworth, Quentin Durward, Redgauntlet,
Rob Roy, and The Tale of Old Mortality),
a new and controversial scholarly edition, based on the first editions

The Two Drovers and Other
Stories (1987)

The Journal, ed. W.E.K.
Anderson (1972)

The Letters, ed. H.J.C.
Grierson (12 vols., 193237)

Selected Poems: one edition
by Thomas Crawford (1972), another by James Reed (1992)

Of the numerous paperback editions
of the novels, those in Oxford World's Classics series (e.g. The Antiquary,
The Bride of Lammermoor, The Heart of Midlothian, Ivanhoe,
Quentin Durward, Redgauntlet, Rob Roy, and Waverley)
tend to be the best edited.

Coleridge's
Poetry and Prose (Norton Critical Edition, 2003), containing a large
selection of the poetry (including the 1798 and 1834 versions of the Ancient
Mariner) and prose, with annotations, a selection of secondary criticism,
and reference matter

BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM:

Rosemary Ashton, The Life
of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1996)

Walter Jackson Bate, Coleridge
(1968), an unsurpassed brief biography

Richard Holmes, Coleridge:
Early Visions (1989) and Coleridge: Darker Reflections (1998),
sympathetic biographies of STC, the former ending and the latter beginning
at 1804

The Cambridge Edition of
the Works of Jane Austen, gen. ed. Janet Todd (10 vols., 20057),
the successor to Chapman (next entry) as the standard scholarly edition,
each volume also available separately

The Novels,
ed. R.W. Chapman
(5 vols., 1923; supplemented by the Minor Works, 1954), still available
as a set or separately

The novels are available
in paperback in Oxford World's Classics (199098; new eds., 20034),
new Penguin
(1995), new Everyman (199196), Broadview (19942002; rev.
ed.
of Northanger Abbey, 2002), and Norton Critical (19942001) editions;
the new Penguins use the texts of the first editions.

BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM:

J.E. Austen-Leigh, A Memoir
of Jane Austen (1870; rev. 1871; ed. R.W. Chapman, 1926; Oxford World's
Classics ed., 2002), the first biography, still interesting but to be used
with caution

John Halperin, The Life of
Jane Austen (1984)

David Nokes, Jane Austen: A
Life (1997)

Claire Tomalin, Jane Austen:
A Life (1997)

Marilyn Butler, Jane Austen
and the War of Ideas (1975), on Austen's conservatism

Shelley and His Circle
(10 vols., 19612002; 3 final vols. forthcoming), presenting the numerous
and various documents
in the Pforzheimer Collection of Shelleyana (including poems, letters, and
vegetarian recipes)

BIOGRAPHY AND CRITICISM:

Kenneth Neill Cameron, Young
Shelley: Genesis of a Radical (1950), and Shelley: The Golden Years
(1974), two excellent studies, together covering the whole of Shelley's
life and works and emphasizing his political thought

Romantic
Circles hosts a searchable Shelley
Chronology. MSS are reproduced in two series, both under the editorship
of Donald Reiman: Manuscripts of the Younger Romantics: Shelley (9 vols.,
1985) and The Bodleian Shelley Manuscripts (23 vols., 1986).

Selections from The
Improvisatrice (1824) and other works are available online,
and her Poetical Works and Tales and Sketches have been reprinted
in facsimile editions (1990 and 1999, respectively). There is an excellent hypertext
edition of LEL's
"Verses" and the Keepsake for 1829on the Romantic Circles
site.

Numerous Romantic texts (particularly
shorter poems) are available on the World Wide Web, and most of them can be
downloaded and printed free of charge. One source of texts is the University
of Toronto's Representative
Poetry anthology. Links to other text archives (e.g. Virginia's "British
Poetry, 1780-1910") are provided on the Romanticism page of The
Voice of the Shuttle and on the links
page of Romanticism on the Net. Many works by woman writers of the time
are more easily accessible on the Web than in print, and links to them may be
found on Adriana Craciun's site (see above)
. David Miall's Romanticism: CD-ROM (1997; included since 2000 with
Duncan Wu's Romanticism: An Anthology) contains numerous Romantic texts
as well as illustrated materials relating to the period.